submitter 446632 !
tags 446632 + unreproducible
thanks
* Nix <n...@esperi.org.uk>, 2008-09-15, 22:27:
The underlying problem appears to be an earlier bug in genisoimage or
its cdrtools predecessor (I didn't track it down), such that .. entries
get created without the ISO_DIRECTORY flag attached. This torpedoes
image merging with such images specified in -M because we end up with
two .. entries in the directory, one a directory, one a file.
This bug no longer appears to be present --- images created by this
version of genisoimage can have multisessions created atop them without
trouble --- but because multisession images created by the buggy
versions may be used as -M sources, we still need to work around it.
Evidence on my system suggests that this may have been a bug in Debian
cdrkit 1.1.6 and perhaps 1.1.7: the bug may have been present in other
versions, though: I don't make multisession data images often. (I
haven't verified that this is the case: the bug may be present
somewhere else, or may still be present but only active in certain
circumstances.)
I originally filed this bug against genisoimage 9:1.1.6-1. But today I
tried to reproduce it with the very same version of genisoimage (and the
same version of libraries genisoimage links to, and same locale), and I
couldn't. :( This means that either:
- I'm crazy, or
- I messed something up when filing the bug report, or
- the bug is indeed triggered only under special circumstances (and we
don't know what they are).
--
Jakub Wilk
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